Portable signature conveyer



Dec. 30, 1930. J c, LACY PORTABLE SIGNATURE CONVEYER Filed Oct. 28, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet. 1

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ATTORNEY 'WITNESS:

Dec.,30, 1930. J. c. LACY 1,787,383

PORTABLE SIGNATURE CONVEYER Filed Oct. 28. 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet. 2

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY Dec. 30, 1930. J. c. LACY 1,787,383

PORTABLE SIGNATURE CONVEYER Filed Oct. 28, 1929 3 Sheets-Sheet, 5

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INVENTOR ATTORNEY WlTNESS Patented Dec. 30, 1930 rarer orsics JESSE G. LACY, F RICHMOND, VIRGINIA PORTABLE SIGNATURE CONVEYER Application filed Getober 28, 1929. Serial No.- 403,011.

This invention relates to a conveyer for feeding signatures or leaflets to a stapling machine, the general object of the invention being to provide means whereby the conveyor is driven from a part of the stapling machine and is portable so that it can be moved away from the machine when not in use.

A further object of the invention is to make the parts adjustable that the invention can be used on different types of stapling inachines.

T his invention also consists in ceratin other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts,

to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote li :e or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation showing the invention in use with a stapling machine.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the device itself.

Figure 3 is view looking toward the deliverv end of the device.

"re ,Lis section on line 4-4 of Fig- 1 5 is a view of the opposite end of the device.

Figure 6 is ure v Figure 7 is a section on line 77 of Figure 1.

Figure 8 is a sectional detail view of a part of the conveyer chain.

In these views, the numeral 1 indicates a pair of hollow posts or uprights, and

a section on line 6-6 of Figtile numeral 2 indicates a rod or shaft having portions slidably arranged in the uprights and held in adjusted position therein by the bolts or screws 3. A plate-like supporting member i is formed with or connected to the upper end of each bar or shaft 2, each supporting member having a centrally arranged vertical slot 5 therein, with its upper edges sloping downwardly and outwardly from the slot. Elongated plates 6 are fastened to said edges in any suitable manner, the upper edges of the plates being spaced apart. A platelike supporting member '7 is arranged at each end of the elongated plates and are connected with the plates, these plates being similar to the plates 4. 'lhe supporting members and the two plates 6 form a saddle which can be adjusted vertically by adjusting the shafts or rods 2 in the posts 1 and fastening them in adjusted position by the bolts 3.

A sprocket 8 carried by each end supporting member 7 and is positioned within the slots of said supporting members and an endless chain 9 passes over these sprockets and over guiding sprockets or pulleys 10 arranged intermediate he ends of the saddle. Some of the links of the chain carry the projections 11 which extend through the space between the plates 6 so that these projections will convey the signatures or leaflets placed on the saddle to the saddle 12 of the stapling machine, shown generally at A.

A horizontal frame 13 is suitably connected to the post 1 nearest the stapling machine and this frame carries the shafts 14 and 15 which are connected together by the gears 16. The shaft 15 carries a sprocket 17 and a sprocket 18 is connected with a shaft of the stapling machine and a chain 19 passes over the two sprockets so that the shafts 15 and 1+l are driven from the stapling machine. A chain 20 passes over a sprocket 21 on the shaft 14 and over a sprocket 22 connected vit-h the sprocket 8 at the delivery end of the device so that the conveyer is operated from the stapling machine. Thus it will be seen that I have provided a convey-er for conveying signatures to a stapling machine, with means for driving the conveyer from the ma chine and with the parts so arranged that the conveyer can be moved away from the stapling machine when. it is not desired use the conveyer and means for adjusting the conveyer to varioustypes of stapling machines. I At will, of course, be understood that the operators stand at the various stations and place the si natures over the saddle so that they will be engaged by the projections 11, which will convey them to the stapling machine where the operator of the machine can feed them into the same.

, It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention Will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be 5 made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that suchchanges fall Within the scope of the append-ed claim.

lVhat I claim is I A conveyer ofthe class described comprirf ing a table of inverted V shape with a slot at its apex, plates having their upper edges ridged to fit in the space formed by the V shape of the table and to which the table is connected, supporting means for some of said plates, each plate having a slot therein e2:- tending downwardly from the apex ol the ridge,'shafts passing through the upper portions of the slots and journaled in the-plates,

29 a roller on each shaft and arranged in the .i slot an endless member passing over the roller and projections on the endless member, the projections on the upper reach of the end-, less member passing through the slot during.

the movement of the member. V r

In testimony whereof I afix my signature. JESSE C. LACY; 

